Marcella Frangipane | |
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Born | |
Alma mater | Sapienza University of Rome (BS, PhD) |
Awards | Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (2018) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Archaeology Prehistory Protohistory Near East[1] |
Institutions | Sapienza University of Rome Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia |
Website | www |
Marcella Frangipane (born 10 October 1948) is a professor of archaeology at the Sapienza University of Rome. She works on the prehistory and protohistory of the Near East and Middle East.[1] She was elected a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 2013.[2]
Frangipane was born in Palermo.[2] She studied humanities with honours in archaeology at the Sapienza University of Rome, and graduated cum laude in 1972.[2] Early in her career she spent three years in the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia in Mexico, where she learned new techniques in anthropology.[2][3] She has been involved with several excavations, in Europe, Mexico, Turkey and Egypt.[3] She was involved the excavation of Cunalan village in the Teotihuacan valley.[4] She has been involved with the excavation team of the Arslantepe since 1976.[5]
Frangipane returned to the Sapienza University of Rome in 1981, where she eventually became a Professor in 1990.[3] She led the School of Archaeology from 2000 to 2003, and was made Vice Director of the Late Predynastic site of Maadi.[3][6] Frangipane studies the formation of bureaucratic and hierarchical structures in urban societies.[5] She is mainly interested in the near and Middle East.[5]
Frangipane was made Director of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Eastern Anatolia in 1990.[7][8] She was involved with the excavation of Arslantepe, where she reconstructed their early administrative systems.[2] This work was supported by the National Geographic.[9] The settlement is west of the banks of the Euphrates and is well known for its architecture.[10] Frangipane identified the most ancient secular public structure worldwide.[10] Arslantepe was included in the UNESCO cultural heritage list in 2014 owing to the significance of Frangipane's findings.[11] She investigated the site of Zeytinli Bahçe Höyük, a village in the Urfa district.[12] Within Arslantepe, Frangipane led the team who discovered the word's oldest royal palace.[13] She was also involved with excavations of
She was the first Italian woman to be elected a foreign associate to the National Academy of Sciences in 2013.[14]
Her awards and honours include;
Frangipane s a member of the German Archaeological Institute and the Shanghai Archeology Forum.[20]